Boyan Penev on Microsoft BI

Since Microsoft discontinued PerfromacePoint Planning, it is slightly unclear what is their strategy in this field. I have made a few suggestions in the past, some of which:

• Stored-Procedure write-back from Excel
• SSAS write-back from Excel
• Better support for dimensional and measure group write-back

Whether, when and how these may get implemented is an open question. I firmly believe that we should continue learning from any possible source – including our competitors. This is why I am quite interested in any possibility to extend my knowledge in the BI space regardless of who is presenting the ideas and solutions.

Being lucky as I am, I received an open invite to the PALO Australia Roadshow 2010, presented by a company I recently posted about – Naked Data. In a brief, what you can expect from PALO and the presentation is:

• In-memory MOLAP
• Rule-based forecasting and planning
• Some sci-fi GPU parallel processing
• Integration with Excel (PALO formulas and Pivot tables)
• .NET API
• Free breakfast

I will be there trying to get some ideas for my future forecasting and planning implementations. Seats are limited, so make sure you register soon!

Other open-source, PALO, seminar

Just a quick one – recently I learned that three former colleagues of mine had formed a new BI company in Australia – Naked Data. What makes it slightly different is that it is based on an open-source platform; and what makes this venture interesting for me is the people who are involved. All of them are exceptional professionals and I believe that if anyone can make it it is them.

I am curious!

Other Naked Data, open-source, PALO